n.
Pronunciation: ˌ kä-n ə - ' t ā -sh ə n
Function: noun
Date: 1532
1 a : the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes b : something suggested by a word or thing : IMPLICATION <the connotation s of comfort that surrounded that old chair>
2 : the signification of something <that abuse of logic which consists in moving counters about as if they were known entities with a fixed connotation ― W. R. Inge>
3 : an essential property or group of properties of a thing named by a term in logic ― compare DENOTATION
– con · no · ta · tion · al \ -shn ə l, -sh ə -n ə l \ adjective